Piero Bosio Social Web Site Personale

@cwebber You got this.

@cargot_robbie what a gif.

@catsalad No I need you!!!

It takes a little bit more effort to make sure I get at least 2 women as facilitators each month. Inclusion takes work, and the work has always paid off, month after month and year after year.

Intentional effort goes a long way into building that community you want to surround yourself with. Especially in the tech community.

It takes a few seconds to load, but check out what today's panel looks like! https://productto.org/next/

Definitely can't pull this off every month, but these are all deeply impressive people in my field too.

Good morning! It's ProductTO day and all my favourite people are coming!

I'm so excited.

@futurebird Shangri-la was one of my favourite places. Most of Yunnan is gorgeous. I spent a year in Chongqing and it's probably a completely different city by now. They built like 5 subway lines that year.

@mcc You're in your Prime.

Happy birthday!

For my current professional career, my strongest advocate has been Jenny Wanger.

She's one of the most prominent voices in product operations, and genuinely one of the most brilliant people I've ever met in my life.

My #1 career advocate. It's such an honour to have that kind of recognition.

You can read her work here:
https://jennywanger.com/blog/

This is all starting to change though, and I think it came out of being intentional about who I platform and how. Where do I spend my time? How do I be intentional about the content I consume, and how do I increase the volume of industry content from people who identify as women or non-binary people?

When I go to product events now, I spend more time talking to women and non-binary people. These conversations are so much better.

Once you start looking, you find an incredible gold mine of brilliant tech people, like:
- @RuthMalan
- @dahukanna
- @grimalkina
- @elizayer
- @hazelweakly
- @renata
- @iris_meredith
- @mcc
- @cwebber

All people who absolutely need to be platformed more.

What's your content diet, and how do actively shift your consumption to something more interesting?

I've been really lucky to have so many high profile men/allies support me in my journey. They shared their platform with me and actively sponsor my work.

But where are the women? Is it because I never sought out community with women because I never felt like I belonged there?

I don't know.

I've spent the last 10 years in tech. I'm trying to come up with a list of women who've truly advocated for me in my career, and my list is so much longer from the years before tech. In recent years, my woman-identified advocates have been from outside tech too.

Such an uncomfortable fact to sit with.

@EdwinG m8 no T's or O's.

@mcc Hot stuff.

@cwebber reply gay'd

@afreytes because there's no sarcasm in text.

@afreytes firing is never over lunch.

@GossiTheDog IMO, this is a great time to make co-pilot write you a script to run co-pilot, then you can call it "agentic".

@evan I'm sorry for your loss and the flight delays. Hopefully you'll get there in time for some of the festivities.

@evan fruit! I'd probably be allergic to it for maximum irony.